Newt Gingrich sitting on a rock.
NEWT: Vote for your weird, maybe-racist, history channel obsessed dad and remember that awkward time you went for a walk in the woods.
The Muppets Attack Fox News (by LeicesterSquareTV)
Paul Rudd Takes Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie Pledge (by BDMpledge)
You can’t be depressed about getting older unless you’re callowly clinging to your youth by wearing skinny corduroys, podcasting, and hoping people don’t notice the grey hairs in your ears. For my own part I embrace getting old because it allows you to walk around with your fly unzipped and people think you’re harmless.”—@johnroderick
I had to break it to @johnroderick that ALL industrial size mayonnaise containers make the “EXTRA HEAVY” boast. I have learned this in my time. But this is still a remarkable label.
Anyway, if I was still in those stuffy, hateful rooms where they plotted to ban technologies, I’d print out a stack of this Matador Network infographics, which are a handy guide to the pig-ignorant campaigns that Hollywood has waged against new technologies since the industry’s founders ripped off Thomas Edison’s patents and fled to California.”—Cory Doctorow
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Some of you internet users who are also NEWSPAPER USERS may have noticed a new mini-feature in the New York Times Magazine (my old ALMA MATER) in the ONE PAGE MAGAZINE section called….
(I had wanted to called it JUDGE JOHN HODGMAN’S VEST POCKET ARGUMENT SETTLER after THIS delightfully weird little book. But as they are trying to fit a whole magazine on a single page, we had to choose BREVITY over WEIRDITY, a bargain I normally loathe to make.)
I am eager to review Please visit THIS NEW PAGE for details as to how to submit your injustices to me, and what I am looking for in a case.
Here is what I promise you: I will review each case personally. I will write back personally if we are going to use your case; and starting tomorrow, I will also write to acknowledge those cases that the court cannot hear.
Here is what I ask of you: in addition to bearing in mind the basic guidelines, keep it short. Let brevity trump weirdity, and make your case plain and simple, ESPECIALLY if you would like your case to be considered for the magazine.
And in that spirit, I will sign off now, except to say:
THAT IS ALL.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Mr Gaiman and Mr Hodgman continue their conversation about Audio Books. Here they talk about the upcoming audiobook release of Robert Sheckley’s DIMENSION OF MIRACLES and why it sometimes feels like a strange cross between Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy AND Mad Men at the same time.
(It’s about five minutes of us burbling.)
